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Cannabis advocates on Wednesday filed a petition to include post-traumatic stress disorder on the state’s list of medical-marijuana-approved conditions. The petition argues that medical marijuana can help with PTSD — especially in veterans — by easing depression, anxiety and nightmares. The petition was formally filed at the state health department by Kevin Grimsinger, an Army [...]

CANNABIS CULTURE – Plans to build a new $400-million Vancouver Art Gallery at a different location have received little support from the public. Now, volunteers at the historic downtown location have come up with another important reason they MUST move: marijuana smoke. read more

While New Jersey lawmakers continue to stall statewide efforts to provide legal patient access to medical marijuana, a pair of New England states — Maine and Rhode Island — have quietly and expeditiously embraced the process. In Rhode Island, Health officials are deciding who among 15 applicants will receive state authorization to produce and dispense [...]

Investigators and pundits alike are fond of calling for ‘more research’ into the safety and efficacy of marijuana and its active compounds. Ironically, when such calls are heeded and new research is published, nobody wants to talk about it. For example, researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY), Upstate Medical University in Syracuse [...]

US News & World Report recently probed the subject of cannabis science, publishing a pair of stories on the subject here and here. Neither story particularly breaks any new ground, though the author (who I spoke with extensively prior to the stories publication) does note that investigators are now assessing the use of cannabis for [...]

California Assemblyman and Chair of the Assembly Public Safety Committee, Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), has an excellent commentary today on why Californians should vote ‘yes’ this November on Prop. 19: The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. One major reason: Passage of Prop. 19 would bring an end to the majority of the [...]

If you haven’t heard, California’s Control & Tax Cannabis campaign just got assigned the proposition number 19. That’s why, today, we’re asking all NORML members and supporters to step up and chip in $19 to the Yes on 19 campaign. Help California become the first state to legalize marijuana today! In the last few days the NAACP of California [...]

The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences. A full policy reorientation is needed.   In response to the health and social harms of illegal drugs, a large international drug prohibition regime has been developed under the umbrella of the United Nations.1 [...]

Jodie Emery speaks to thousands at Vancouver's Cannabis/Canada Day Jodie Emery, wife of Marc Emery the "Prince of Pot", speaks to thousands of people at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Canada Day July 1st, 2010, known as "Cannabis Day". Marc is imprisoned in the USA for a 5-year sentence on charges of selling seeds, but [...]

Police Raid Medical Marijuana Protest Organizer SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The home of a Saginaw County man was raided again after he held a protest last week on rights for medical marijuana users. John Roberts, a medical marijuana patient and caregiver, organized a rally outside the Saginaw County courthouse earlier this month. Local law enforcement [...]